1 My dear child, commend Dr. Grant to the deanery of Westminster or St. Paul's, and I should be as glad of your nurseryman and poulterer as you could be.
2 To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles 3 "I commend that fact very carefully to your attention," said Holmes to his professional colleague.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 4 At the same time, Stanley Hopkins's methods do not commend themselves to me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 5 But I commend the idea to your mind.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE 6 This motto, however, they did not commend to farmer customers who had had crop failures.
7 It's a very 'portant habit, Andy; and I 'commend yer to be cultivatin' it, now yer young.'
8 So that should we ever find these weaklings attempting anything, we may commend their courage rather than their prudence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 9 William was kindly commended and his promotion hoped for.
10 I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended.
11 I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible.
12 Two methods, somewhat opposed to one another, which have occasionally been followed in dealing with conspiracies, are in no way to be commended.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 13 It rests now to determine which of these two methods is the more to be commended.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ... 14 In both of these trials the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau was officially exonerated from any wilful misdoing, and his work commended.
15 I showed him over the establishment, not omitting the pantry, with no little pride, and he commended it highly.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION